Justice Ayesha Malik takes oath as first woman judge of SCP

Justice Ayesha Malik takes oath as first woman judge of SCP

Pakistan

CJP Gulzar Ahmed administered the oath to Justice Ayesha at a ceremony in Islamabad.

ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) - Justice Ayesha Malik on Monday has taken oath as the first woman judge of Supreme Court of Pakistan (SCP).

According to details, Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Gulzar Ahmed administered the oath to her at a ceremony in Islamabad.

Justice Ayesha A. Malik was born in 1966 and received her early education in Paris, New York and Karachi.

She did her B.Com from Karachi and obtained her LLB degree from Lahore. Malik completed her LLM from Harvard Law School, USA. The 55-year-old justice sworn in as a judge of Lahore High Court (LHC) on March 27, 2012.

It is pertinent to mention here that Justice Ayesha A. Malik will be the judge of the Supreme Court till March 2031. She is fourth on the seniority list in the LHC.